LOL...My MIL swears they keep a small child in a cage somewhere in Walmart and start poking him to make him scream and cry when they see her coming..

I think they keep a herd of free-range children on Wheelies shoes in WalMart, and they send them out when the place gets just a bit crowded, with orders to knock down as many people as they can. Keeps the people watching the store security monitors entertained.

There was an old guy that sat behind me in church one Sunday who thought the time was right to clip his fingernails. Aaaaarrrggghhhh!

amen.

DH likes to play audiobooks while we prep bulk food, or fruit for the dehydrator, or have plucking parties.

that's great, but... if he starts talking to me, we have to hit REWIND.

because... when two things are coming at me at once, I am no longer able to screen out tone, to concentrate on the other.

so, I hear NEITHER, just cacophony.

it's not so much aa sensitivity to noise, because, like others have said above, I LIKE to crank up the tunes, especially piano concertos, and classic rock (like Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Depeche Mode)

my personal theory is that I'm already on "overload" from screening out so much with my body (zings, buzzes, zaps, spazzes, aches, tingles, blah blah blah) so one more thing is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.

same here I am more sensitive to tv and radio noise and whinning little spawns at wally world and their kids

LOL..Free range children? I'm going to think of that everytime I go in there now..

ME TOO!

I find that if I am listening to the TV, or a book on tape, and the hubby talks. I MISS IT! I get frustrated, and MUST rewind to hear what I missed. I think that is a bit OCD on my part, but i want to hear the wHOLE story. The hubby also has a knack of coming in at EXACTLY the time the high point in the story, or show is hitting. Just as the plane is crashing, or the child is whispering her secrets. I got a DVR, just so I could rewind the show and resee/rehear it.

Have you noticed those "close talkers"? those folks that MUST be almost up your nose to talk to you? AHHHH!!! I want to run for the exits screaming! The brightly lit grocery store with all the crying babies, and shouting adults? AHHH!!! Since starting copaxone, I simply am like a raw nerve, and cant handle the volume, or the intensity of having to be ontop of it. I want to wear earmuffs, crouch over, pull down my wool hat and just keep going! its hard when folks in church just want to check in and see how you are. I am a raw nerve somedays by the time I can get out.

For some reason it seems that commercials are much louder than the TV program I'm watching and that drives me crazy. Especially some commercials......so loud!! The one that absolutely send me over the edge is the one for the doggy treat Beggin' Strips. This dog is running all over the house because he thinks he's getting bacon....but it's really Beggin' Strips....but it's such a hyped up commercial and so loud I have to turn the volume all the way down to endure it!

commercials are allowed to be AS loud as the loudest part of the program they preceed. So, if you are watching a shoot out, blow up explosion kinda thing, you will find that the commercials are as loud as those explosions! The advertisers were complaining that with Tivo, DVR and so on, people were skipping their ads, or getting up to do other things while commercials were on, and since they paid to place the ads there, they wanted a way to "be heard"

I hope we all switch to IN program advertising. you know, see them drinking maxwell house, or country time lemonade instead of being pelted with battery commericals on the break. Just show the energizer brand name when the child is inserting them into his toys. The subliminal factor alone would be more tempting than screaming at us during the break.

This has actually been an issue for me too! I have actually been sensitive to noise for quite some time. Commercials, crowded rooms, listening to the radio and even the sound of the fan in our bathroom gets on my nerves. Since I was diagnosed in just the past week, I have to say that reading about some of the other symptoms that are being discussed, has helped me to realize that it wasn't just me being "crabby" as my family has said. I also get accused of "not listening", but I am now starting to think it is because there are other noises distracting me.